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Takka - Shah Alam II Mahe Indrapur
| Issuer | Princely state of Bharatpur (Indian princely states) |
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| Year | 1762-1806 |
| Type | Standard circulation coin |
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| Obverse lettering | مہے اندرا پور (Translation: Mahe Indrapur) |
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| Mintage | ND (1762-1806) |
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Shah Alam II was the Mughal emperor in name during one of the dynasty's most turbulent collapses — blinded by the Rohilla chieftain Ghulam Qadir in 1788, restored under Maratha protection, and ultimately reduced to a pensioner of the British after 1803. Bharatpur's rulers struck coins in his name throughout this period as a matter of political legitimacy, not Mughal loyalty. The fiction of imperial authority was useful currency long after the empire itself had ceased to function.